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Aida
Ellen Kent's traditionalist production of Verdi's masterpiece fails to set the pulses racing -
Brilliant Corners
Moving on Music's four-day jazzfest is an eclectic musical marathon -
March '14
Andrew Lemon reviews the latest from Sullivan & Gold, The Wood Burning Savages and Malibu Shark Attack -
Game of Thrones Season Opener
Matthew Coyle reviews the opening episode of Game of Thrones season 4 at Belfast Film Festival – spoiler alert! -
The Nose
Patrick J O'Reilly adapts Nikolai Gogol's satirical short story with hilarious results at The MAC -
Kara Walker
Californian multi-disciplinary artist confronts American slave history with this endlessly inventive exhibition at The MAC -
One Sandwich Short of a Genius
Big Telly channel Dario Fo in this time-shifting play about familial woes -
Starred Up
Crumlin Road Gaol and the Maze provide the backdrop for David Mackenzie's brutally frank prison drama -
A Portrait of the Artist...
Dublin's New Theatre tour a stage adaptation of James Joyce's classic novel with mixed results -
Under the Skin
Scarlett Johansson becomes human under a Scottish sky in Jonathan Glazer's compelling adaptation -
Alan Irwin
Winner of the 2014 Chortle Student Comedy Award at Queen's brings his Party Hard show to the Black Box -
Eat Static
Merv Pepler keeps the psychedelic beats pumping at Voodoo after 25 years of dance floor destruction -
Nivelli's War
Hope and magic collide in Cahoots NI's latest inspirational production for audiences of all ages -
Dola
An 'astonishingly assured and ambitious' debut concept album by experimental duo Allez Bartoli -
The Wheelchair Monologues
Gearóid Ó Cairealláin's extraordinary story is told in Gaelic at Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich in Belfast -
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson's latest all-star caper is a fantastically enjoyable yarn -
Night Music
An innovative presentation of classical music at The MAC proves popular -
About a Goth
Staged Assault bring Tom Well's pithy play to the Black Box, chipped black nail varnish and all -
The Glass Album
Contemporary artists respond to the 19th century documentary and forensic work of James Glass -
Shrieking Sisters
Maggie Cronin and Carol Moore tell the story of Ireland's militant suffragettes -
Handwritten
Old skool all-round entertainer Ryan Hand headlines a bizarre evening at the Black Box -
Family Fever
McCracken Memorial Drama Society resurrect one of Sam Cree's 'downright silly' plays -
Master & Dog
The folk-rock act channel early Snow Patrol in an inspired set at Voodoo, writes Andrew Lemon -
All There Is
Fahy Productions and playwright Jonathan Bailie imagine a good deed gone horribly wrong -
Donovan
The folk legend gives a songwriting masterclass in Belfast -
Non-Stop
Liam Neeson scowls his way through another generic action flick this time set on a plane -
The Poets' Wives
Behind every great man there is a great woman in David Park's 'stunning' new novel -
The Invisible Woman
Ralph Fiennes' sophomore directorial effort is a beautifully-shot exploration of Charles Dickens' love affair with Nelly Turnen -
Macbeth
The golden age of Northern Irish opera continues with NI Opera's contemporary take on Verdi's dark masterpiece -
Percy French Quartet
The renaissance man's songs and poems hark back to a simpler time at the Linen Hall Library -
Faraway, So Near...
Video artist Anna Konik juxtaposes images and messages of hope and despair at Void -
Chris Agee
The American poet talks of loss and commemoration at the Ulster Hall -
Hello Belfast
The John Hewitt hosts Clinton Kirkpatrick's bold vision of the city as a particoloured land of giants -
The Rest Just Follows
Glenn Patterson's nostalgic new novel recalls the strangely free and quiet Belfast of the 1970s -
Arrivals
The experiences of immigrants to Northern Ireland are succinctly expressed in five witty and hard-hitting plays -
Her
Spike Jonze warns against cutting the ties that bind us in this existential meditation on technology and romance -
Brief Encounter
Wireless Mystery Theatre's most ambitious production to date is the perfect Valentine's Day treat -
Fiddler on the Roof
The cast play the music in Craig Revel Horwood's inventive take on the famous musical -
Wired
Ed Zealous's long-awaited debut album features a cluster of great tracks but feels out of place in 2014, writes Andrew Lemon -
Other Voices
Derry~Londonderry again plays host to the acclaimed music series featuring Foy Vance and more